Unreal Engine 3 Forum

I bought Dead Space a couple of days ago and it's on the counter behind me. Ima check fo' yo'! Please hold.

*Music*

Hmmm, it didn't say so on the box. I dunno for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. UE3 gets around, if ya know what I mean. Even Mass Effect uses it. Which is strange, considering that Bioware has its own engine.

That's just a post process filter, games that don't want it can remove it. Epic clearly likes it and puts it everywhere.

I don't see texture pop in when I play UE3 games... Unless you mean on the 360, I don't know about that. I did think Dead Space had great polished visuals though. I first played it on an underpowered PC and it still held up very well with many options turned off, because even the most basic elements were so refined, like the textures themselves, rather than just effects piled on top. That's probably why the Wii game looks so nice, the team has true artists with an eye for details, not just people with technical know how.

punkxblaze said:

"According to Wikipedia, it was built on the same engine that ran the 360/ps3 versions of The Godfather.

Wow really? It looks a hundred times better than that game.

If I remember correctly, there was a developer diary episode about Dead Space in which Glen Schoefield (the game's Executive Producer) mentioned showing the game to Cliffy B. According to him, Cliff mentioned that Dead Space barely looked like an Unreal Engine game, to which Glen said, "That's because it isn't." He very explicitly states the game does not run on the Unreal Engine.

The episode is/was available on the XLBM/PSN Store, so it may be worth checking out. In another episode they relate building a very specific room for the sole purpose of showcasing a horrid screeching noise the Audio guys recorded in the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, light rail in the SF area) tunnel that runs under the SF Bay. Interesting stuff. I discinctly remember hearing that noise on a daily basis as I commuted in to SF from Oakland, and it was pretty horrific.

I read somewhere that it was made with the Godfather engine. Makes sense as that was another EA game.

shulinchung said:

"So the GiantBomb wiki probably is wrong? @_@"

Unfortunately i'm to blame for this mistake. When looking around for info on the UE3 i must have come across something that mentioned it being used in Dead Space (obviously they were wrong) and I just stuck it on giant bomb thinking it was correct. It was a hell of a long time ago so im not sure exactly what happened but it'll be something like that.